Raoul Moat

Think it must have been the headlines but of all the thoughts to flood my head while cycling through Glencoe the idiocy of this man and his fans got in there.

The situation for anyone confused is that Raoul Moat is in American terminology a "sad loser". This is because of two things he did.

(1) He got that worked up over some one.
(2) He didn't have the guts to shoot himself at the outset.

In detail...
(1) The point is that a true man (noble man, Aryan) has the strength to just get over it. If the girl is so bad then walk away, she's certainly not worth getting all mixed up over. If she is so good then he must have messed up so that she was so unhappy. Either way it's nothing to do with her but the battles within himself. Raoul Moat wasn't man enough to sort himself out so he lost the will to live.

(2) Having lost the will to live he didn't even have the guts to kill himself, but instead went out with a gun to shoot other people. Eventually (and he must have been in a pretty desperate state by the end) when he realised that killing other people doesn't make the pain go away he did the obvious thing and killed himself.

Looking back though what a ridiculous waste of time when he could have just packed his bags and be down the pub with his mates right now having a drink and a laugh.

Sadly there are people who are very confused who see a resolution to their own pent up frustrations, angers and confusions in this man's actions. I blame the US film industry more than a small amount since 80% of US films operate by first building up enormous anger and then releasing it by killing things. This is absolutely the wrong way of looking at it! If you are going to kill make it yourself (killing other things still leaves you and the problem you have), but realise that this is an enormous waste, and the very worst solution. Unfortunately US films would be much fun to watch if the "hero" shot himself when the tension got too great ;-) The best films would be where the Hero got over his personal issues himself and then went out on a sunny day to help the people around him who were struggling to sort out their issues... that is a true Hero for anyone confused. A lesson to learn there for the worlds governments who also think (like Moat) that when things get bad you go out and kill people!